Delaware Indian and English spelling book, : for the schools of the mission of the United Brethren; with some short historical accounts from the Old and New Testament, and other useful instruction for children.

by: Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808; Lay, H. R. fmo RIBRL; Demming, Joseph. fmo RIBRL

Publication date: 1806

Topics: Delaware language, Delaware language, Delaware language, Delaware language, Moravian Indians, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1806

Publisher: Philadelphia: : From the Press of Mary Cist, no. 104 North Second Street, near Race Street.

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: John Carter Brown Library

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Delaware; English

Enlarged edition, by the author of his: Essay of a Delaware-Indian and English spelling-book, for the use of the schools of the Christian Indians on Muskingum River, printed in Philadelphia, 1776

Signatures: [A]⁶ ([A]1 verso blank) B-P⁶ (P6 verso blank)

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John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: front flyleaf and p. [1]-12 are torn and mutilated, especially p. 5-6, affecting text

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary worn calf with marbled boards

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Ray Lay or H.R. Lay: ms. autograph on recto of front flyelaf; "Bought of Joseph Demming [?], a Delaware Indian, Western District, Upper Canada": ms. inscription on p. [1], 2nd count